The Godmother of rock Patti Smith performed on the red carpet of the Palazzo del Cinema to pay homage to the writer of the beat generation Fernanda Pivano, celebrated in venice by the docu-film by Teresa Marchesi “Pivano Blues – Sulla strada di Nanda”.

Smith played Nanda‘s favourite song “Winter“, remembering the latter’s smile while lifting her hands to the sky. In the movie alongiside her other voices and faces remembering the writer – Piero Pelù and Ghigo from Litfiba, Vasco Rossi, Luciano Ligabue, Jovanotti, Vinicio Capossela, Francesco Guccini, Fabrizio De André, Abel Ferrara, Lou Reed and many more.